What Is This Thing Called Science?
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What Is This Thing Called Science? is a best-selling textbook by Dr. Alan Chalmers. It is a readable guide to the Philosophy of Science which outlines the shortcomings of a naive empiricist accounts of science, and describes and assesses modern attempts to replace them. The book is written clearly with minimal use of technical terms.[1]
What Is This Thing Called Science? was first published in 1976, and has been translated into many languages.[2]
Dr. Chalmers has been a Visiting Scholar at the Flinders University Philosophy Department since 1999.[3]
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[edit] Three editions of the book
- What Is This Thing Called Science?, Queensland University Press and Open University Press, 1976, pp. 157 + xvii. (Translated into German, Dutch, Italian Spanish and Chinese)
- What Is This Thing Called Science?, Queensland University Press, Open University Press and Hackett, 2nd revised edition (6 new chapters), 1982, pp. 179 + xix. (Translated into German, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Portuguese, Polish and Danish, Greek and Estonian.)
- What Is This Thing Called Science?, University of Queensland Press, Open University press, 3rd revised edition, Hackett,1999.
[edit] See also
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas Kuhn
- The Logic of Scientific Discovery, by Karl Popper
[edit] References
- ^ What is this thing called science? review
- ^ Alan Chalmers, (BSc Bristol, MSc Manchester, PhD London)
- ^ Alan Chalmers, (BSc Bristol, MSc Manchester, PhD London)
